Book Review: Seanan McGuire’s “Shine in Pearl”
A short exposé of love, both wanted and unreturned, as we get lost in Simon’s, Patrick’s, and Dianda’s memories from 1901 in San Francisco.
A short exposé of love, both wanted and unreturned, as we get lost in Simon’s, Patrick’s, and Dianda’s memories from 1901 in San Francisco.
Two corpses at two different house showings — and all that math! — discourages Aurora “Roe” Teagarden about becoming a real estate agent. It’s obvious that there is a very cool killer at large in Lawrenceton, one who knows a great deal about real estate — and maybe too much about Roe.
All aboard for murder, as the Cape Farewell steams out to sea, carrying a serial strangler who says it with flowers and a little song. It’s be up to Inspector Roderick Alleyn to deal with a collection of neurotic, bombastic, shifty, and passionate passengers at one another’s throats.
A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot. Chief Inspector Alleyn knows it wasn’t the dart that killed him, but the prussic acid someone added to the cut.
There’s a curse on Muriel’s mind that incapacitates her with fear. The only way to get rid of it is to betray her beloved by bringing another man into their bed. Now Hell has frozen over, and Muriel will have to suffer that threesome, if she wants to help her dad.
An anthology of six stories in the urban fantasy/paranormal romance genre in which the gloves are off and simply surviving might just be the dirtiest, most difficult deed of all.
Bestselling author Nalini Singh brings a sinfully playful contemporary romance between two sworn enemies turned partners the PR game.
An uneasy alliance between warring families gets heated when a catastrophic betrayal from within changes everything. Two enemy warriors, Ramona Adler and Matias Baena, must keep their family secrets and just one misstep could spell the end of them both.
A murder in Luxor sparks Peabody’s interest. When the same stranger shows up at their barren dig, both Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn — and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.
Bridget Merrow has almost everything a werewolf could wish for — someone to share it all with this Christmas. Too bad the someone she wants doesn’t want her. Or does he?